Richard Adams Famous Quotes
"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal."
"My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today."
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
Richard Adams Quotations
A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.
Henry Louis Mencken
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
"On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."
Mark Twain
"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
Charles Dickens
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell
"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
Bertrand Russell
"Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."
Alexander Pope
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
Dan Quayle
"I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone."
William F Claire